#PoetryOldDublin

by Tony Gorman on Jun 19th, 2014 - 4786 Views

I remember Dublin Town When I walked down Eden Quay And I listened to a tinker boy As he sang a song for me He sang so sweetly on his own It brought a tear from my eye He put so much feeling in his song I could see the “Croppy Boy” He finished off his first song Followed by “The Rising of the... 

by Tony Gorman on Jun 6th, 2014 - 1793 Views

Expectations were high Our thoughts were new Our plans were exciting We’d bunk into the zoo The fence was high Our trousers new And scale this height We had to do We shimmed over The barbed wire fence The arse of my trousers Was no defence Inside we dropped We knew not where Could we be in? A timber...